Japan’s core consumer prices rose 0.7 percent in August from a year earlier, marking the eighth straight month of annual gains, in an encouraging sign for a central bank struggling to meet its 2 percent inflation target. The rise in the nationwide core consumer price index (CPI), which includes oil products but excludes volatile fresh […]
Read moreThe greenback gave back some gains overnight while stocks climbed slightly as markets digested prospects for U.S. tax reform ahead of Asian trade on Friday. Markets in Asia also awaited a raft of data out of Japan later in the session. The dollar lost some steam on Thursday after surging on optimism following the release […]
Read moreAs e-commerce grows increasingly competitive, CNBC’s Jim Cramer revisited Wayfair, one of the space’s most hotly contested stocks, to see how it was faring on Wall Street. “It seems like every time some analyst comes out with a positive piece of research on Wayfair, someone else comes back with a bearish retort,” the “Mad Money” […]
Read moreThe war for A.I. leadership will be 'the biggest battle of our lifetime,' says Applied Materials CEO
The war over who will create the framework for next-generation artificial intelligence will likely be the biggest corporate battle in the near future, Applied Materials President and CEO Gary Dickerson told CNBC on Thursday. In an interview with “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer, Dickerson said that waiting for operating system upgrades and new mobile phone […]
Read moreAs e-commerce grows increasingly competitive, CNBC’s Jim Cramer revisited Wayfair, one of the space’s most hotly contested stocks, to see how it was faring on Wall Street. “It seems like every time some analyst comes out with a positive piece of research on Wayfair, someone else comes back with a bearish retort,” the “Mad Money” […]
Read moreWhole Foods, which was recently acquired by Amazon, suffered a data breach of credit card information used in taprooms and full table-service restaurants in some of the grocery chain’s stores, the company said Thursday. Whole Foods noted these venues use a different point-of-sale system than the main checkout systems. Credit cards used at those systems […]
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One of the largest sellers of exchange-traded funds has filed for two bitcoin ETFs. ProShares, which has about $29 billion in assets under management, filed Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a ProShares Bitcoin ETF and ProShares Short Bitcoin ETF. The two ETFs plan to track bitcoin futures contracts traded on the […]
Read moreTwitter sold more than $270,000 of ads to Russia-linked accounts during the 2016 election, the company said Thursday, further detailing the extent of potential foreign influence that’s spurred Senate investigations and calls for greater regulation. Twitter accounts affiliated with Russia Today, an outlet with “strong links” to the Russian government,” promoted more than 1,800 tweets […]
Read moreAmazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods has instantly helped the high-end grocery chain shed its “whole paycheck” nickname, said CEO John Mackey, according to a report in Food Business News. At a conference last week, Mackey said he couldn’t elude the moniker and even compared himself to the magician Harry Houdini, who’s best known for his […]
Read moreToday Southwest Airlines and Sherwin-Williams both said revenue would be lower because of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. They join a growing list of companies affected in one way or another by the storms: Hurricane Impact on Earnings Southwest Airlines: lowered Q3 revs.Sherwin-Williams: cut Q3 guidanceCarnival Cruise Line: cut Q4 EPSDR Horton: cut Q4 guidanceCarMax: […]
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